DNA METABARCODING ENABLES HIGH-THROUGHPUT DETECTION OF SPOTTED WING DROSOPHILA (DROSOPHILA SUZUKII) WITHIN UNSORTED TRAP CATCHES

DNA Metabarcoding Enables High-Throughput Detection of Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) Within Unsorted Trap Catches

The spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii, Matsumara) is a rapidly spreading global pest of soft and stone fruit production.Due to the similarity of many of its life stages to other cosmopolitan drosophilids, surveillance for this pest is currently bottlenecked by the laborious sorting and morphological identification of large mixed trap catc

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Auditing for the Corporate Fraud Prevention

The main threats to business are: competitors; supervisory and investigative bodies; tax system; Necklaces crisis developments; currency exchange rates and so on.However, the world experience of recent decades has shown that not only external phenomena but also own employees can be perceived as tangible threats to business.On the part of the staff,

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The Activism of Dance Performance in Appalachia: Utilizing the Arts to Address Social and Environmental Crisis and Injustice in the Mountains

For well over a century, the human and more-than-human of Central Appalachia have endured oppression and exploitation, primarily due to natural resource extraction.In spring 2008, the author led a dark touri to a mountaintop removal Accent Cabinets coalmining site in Southern West Virginia for colleagues, which included Dance Professor Deborah McLa

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